Second Call for Papers: MICCAI 98
First International Conference on
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, USA
Tutorials, Saturday, October 10, 1998
Conference, Sunday, October 11 to Tuesday, October 13, 1998
Jointly sponsored by
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School
General Co-Chairs:
Takeyoshi Dohi Tokyo
W. Eric L. Grimson MIT
Ron Kikinis Harvard Medical School
Program Co-Chairs:
Alan Colchester University of Kent & Guy's Hospital
Scott Delp Northwestern University
William Wells Harvard Medical School
Executive Committee:
Nicholas Ayache INRIA
Anthony DiGioia Shadyside
James Duncan Yale University
Karl-Heinz Hoehne University of Hamburg
Stephane Lavallee IMAG
Stephen Pizer University of North Carolina
Richard Robb Mayo Clinic
Russell Taylor Johns Hopkins University
Program Committee:
David Altobelli James Anderson Takehide Asano Nicholas Ayache
Ruzena Bajcsy William Bargar Andre Bauer Dominique Blin
Isabelle Bloch Michel Bolla Fred Bookstein Michael Brady
Peter Brett Richard Bucholz Grigore Burdea Edmund Chao
Steven Charles Phillipe Cinquin J.-L. Coatrieux Alan Colchester
Court Cutting Jacques Darcourt Paolo Dario Brian Davies
Scott Delp Anthony Di Gioia Takeyoshi Dohi James Drake
James Duncan Alan C. Evans Norberto Ezquerra Elliot Fishman
M. Fitzpatrick Thomas Fortin Henry Fuchs Toshi Fukuda
Guido Gerig Sarah Gibson Michael Goris Frank Gosse
Erik Granum Blake Hannaford David Hawkes William Heinrichs
Derek Hill Karl-Heinz Hoehne Robert Howe Thomas Huang
Koji Ikuta Hiroshi Iseki Branislav Jaramaz Chris Johnson
Leo Joskowicz Takeo Kanade Arie Kaufman Louis Kavoussi
Peter Kazanzides Ron Kikinis Yong Min Kim Andres Kriete
Heinz Lemke Stephane Lavallee Bill Lorensen Robert Maciunas
Gregoire Malandain Majrilio Marcacci Jacques Marescaux Tim McInerney
Dwight Meglan Philippe Merloz Dimitris Metaxas Brent Mittlestadt
Ralph Moesges Heinrich Muller Alison Noble Lutz Nolte
Wieslaw Nowinski Masahiro Ohgami Charles Pelizzari Michael Peshkin
Jordon Phillips Stephen Pizer Rob Playter Glenn Preminger
Jerry Prince Klaus Radermacher Hans Reinhardt Emile Reyt
Richard Robb J.-M. Rocchisani Joseph Rosen Jonathan Sackier
Ichiro Sakuma Tim Salcudean Kenneth Salisbury Richard Satava
Paul Schenker Achim Schweikard Siegfried Stiehl David Stulberg
Paul Suetens Naoki Suzuki Gabor Szekely Mark Talamini
Chris Taylor Russ Taylor Frank Tendick Demetri
Terzopoulos
J.-P. Thirion A. Todd-Pokropek J.-I. Toriwaki Jocelyne Troccaz
Jay Udupa Marcel Van Herk Michael Vannier Alessandro Verri
Max Viergever Eiju Watanabe Lee Weiss William Wells
James Zinreich
Purpose: The formation of MICCAI acknowledges the overlap and synergy
of the three vigorous strands of research in medically-oriented
visualization, image understanding, and robotics that is represented
by the independently successful VBC, MRCAS and CVRMED meetings.
The goal of the organizing committee is to maintain the momentum of
the previous meetings and launch an annual meeting conforming to the
highest possible standard that will bring together scientists from the
fields of medicine and engineering. The meeting will be
organized in a single track, without parallel sessions. The focus is
on the introduction and validation of new image computing and
image-guided interventional methodology into clinical practice. The
emphasis will be on high quality work, whether methodological or
clinical evaluation. The conference will continue to stress a central
theme of its predecessor conferences, in which strongly coupled
interactions between clinicians and scientists provide a common focus
for innovative development and deployment of new methods and systems.
Topics to be addressed in this conference include, but are not restricted
to:
Medical Image Computing:
- - constructing patient-specific models
- - multimodal fusion
- - virtual or augmented reality visualizations
- - image guided therapy
- - anatomical atlases
- - data registration
- - tracking and localization of patients and tools
- - clinical analysis, change detection, diagnosis
- - quantitative analysis
- - time series analysis
- - finite element modeling
- - integration of functional methods with morphology
Computer Assisted Interventional Systems:
- - medical telepresence and telesurgery
- - surgical simulators
- - therapy planning
- - medical manipulators
- - safety issues
Clinical Applications of Computer Assisted Systems:
- - clinical evaluation of systems
- - novel applications of interventional systems in surgical specialties
(e.g. Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, ENT surgery, Radiation therapy).
Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts for competitive
review -- abstracts will not be accepted.
Submission details: Authors should submit 4 copies of their manuscript to
MICCAI 1998
c/o Eric Grimson
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
545 Technology Square
Cambridge MA 02139
Manuscripts should be 2-8 pages in length, in two column format, with
one inch (25mm) margins on the top, bottom and sides. Authors should
use a 12 point Times typeface. The title page should include contact
information: address, email, fax of the primary author. It should
also include a short set of keywords to aid in directing the
manuscript to the appropriate members of the program committee.
Templates in Latex and MS Word will be avaiable from the web site (below).
Key dates: Submission of manuscripts March 3, 1998
Notification of acceptance June 9, 1998
Receipt of camera ready copy July 21, 1998
Conference starts October 10, 1998
For additional information, please consult the following web page
which will be updated on a regular basis:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/miccai98.html
Alternatively, contact:
MICCAI 1998
c/o Eric Grimson
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
545 Technology Square
Cambridge MA 02139
Listed below are the meetings that are direct ancestors of the MICCAI
meeting.
VBC: Visualization in Biomedical Computing
Atlanta GA USA 1990
Chapel Hill NC USA 1992
Rochester MN USA 1994
Hamburg Germany 1996
MRCAS: Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
Pittsburgh PA USA 1994
Baltimore MD USA 1995
CVRMED: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine
Nice France 1995
CVRMED / MRCAS:
Grenoble France 1997